Patch 4.3 - World Event Pets No Longer Bound on Pick Up
An interesting change is made to pets in Patch 4.3, all world event pets are no longer bound on pick up. Feel free to yell at me for not spotting that a week before when you could still buy the Feline Familiar to keep it and sell it after the patch. Thanks to darkquantum for the news tip!

Guild Master Dethrone in Patch 4.3
In Patch 4.3, Guilds with inactive guild leaders can now impeach their GL and replace him with another active user.

For more information, check out the announcemend posted a month ago.

Originally Posted by Lylirra
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

In the event that a guild leader takes a leave of absence and remains inactive for an extended period of time, it can be difficult for some guilds to carry on as normal. To help assist with these situations, we're introducing a new system in patch 4.3 known as "inactive guild leader replacement" that will allow players of the appropriate rank to take over leadership of a guild from an inactive guild leader via the Guild tab.

The way inactive guild leader replacement works is pretty straightforward. If a guild leader’s character is inactive for 30 days, a notification will appear in the Guild News & Events feed which can only be seen by guild members who are eligible to become the new guild leader. To determine eligibility, the game will look for the highest ranked character in the guild that's logged on in the past week, and any guild member from that rank will be able to request guild leadership simply by clicking on the notification.

As with many actions in World of Warcraft, clicking on the notification will open up a confirmation window which, once accepted, will transition leadership from the inactive guild leader to the first player to request leadership. If guild leadership is changed, the old guild leader will be notified via email to his or her registered Battle.net address. While some players may need to log out and back in before their Guild tab will visually update, the change in leadership will be immediate, with all ranks and permissions remaining in-tact.

Please note that if you're an active leader of a guild, this system should not affect you or your guild. The goal of inactive guild leader replacement is simply to allow guilds which have found themselves without leadership for a long period of time to resolve the situation on their own without the need to contact our In-Game Support department.

Inactive guild leader replacement is currently live on the PTR, but keep in mind that it may be difficult to test, as a guild leader will need to be inactive for a full 30 days before the option to transition leadership will become available.

PTR Raid Testing Schedule - Nov 8/9

Originally Posted by Daelo
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

More Heroic testing, oh my. The second half of Dragon Soul should also be available for LFR soon, possibly tonight.

Monday, November 8

10:30 PDT Warlord Zon’ozz 10 Heroic

14:00 PDT Hagara 10 Heroic

15:30 PDT Warmaster Blackhorn 10 Heroic

Tuesday, November 9

10:30 PDT Warlord Zon’ozz 25 Heroic

14:00 PDT Hagara 25 Heroic

15:30 PDT Warmaster Blackhorn 25 Heroic

17:00 PDT Spine of Deathwing 25 Heroic

Remember, don't forget to brush AND floss your teeth. Oh, and the schedule might change at a moment's notice due to a myriad of factors.

Deleted more than 20 squashlings. Bought the feline pet on two chars and did the event almost every day on 2 or 3 so I really had loads of them. :/ Would have rather given them to my other alts, man that sucks.But hey that's how wow goes..going to live with it and be happy for all future events

I dunno - it seems quite reasonable to expect the leader of a guild to log on at least once a month. If the guild leader is going to be away for longer than that for a legit resaon they can temporarily transfer leadership to a trusted officer on the understanding they they will transfer it back.

The only addition I would like to see to this service is that there should be a reminder service associated with it where the guild leader gets a (out of game) email warning them it's going to happen. Or at the very least a message on all their alts.

I destroyed like 12 sinister squashlings..... (5 85's) that my alts could have used..... =(

The alts could've done some Pumpkin bags across Azeroth to get the pet as well :P Remember, the actual level requirement for Hallowed be thy Name is 21, and that is just to enter the Scarlet Monastery (a low-level character can enter an instance of the event boss already created by high-levels)

Well, the guild leader thing kinda messes things up for those that keep up an old guild as their bank.

We had a small but working guild in vanilla. Later on people slowly left for other guilds and only their bank alts and such stayed behind. My alt became the guild leader and I bought guild bank space for my own stuff. At the moment there are few bank alts of people that appear once every few months and then old characters that have not been logged in for several years.

Now, I'm checking on my guild leader alt every week or two, but after this change I think I really should just kick everyone else out of the guild to prevent my own stuff becoming accessible to someone that just happens to log in after a year or so (assuming I havent checked on my alt for 30 days). I would like to keep all the old players in the guild but not sure if I want to risk it. This is where the new system sucks.

Though, alt bank guilds with some random old players probably were not the most important thing in Blizz mind when they implemented this change.

"all world event pets are no longer bound on pick up."This is incorrect. Only the world event pets currently purchaseable with the world event currency are becoming BOE. The pets that drop from the satchels from the bosses (I.e Ice Chip from Ahune Midsummer, and the Toxic Wasteling from Love Is In The Air) are still BoP on the test realms.

The snowball requirement was mentioned going to be removed a ways back on here with the helpers getting huffy about being summoned during winterveil. Was a month or two back at most. Bugger, only one alt on a different server never got a squash for Sinister Calling and long nuked them as they were taking over the planet. Ah well. The guild thing might be annoying though, I hope it doesn't spam since I run three guilds that are friends and family only (Purely in spam invite prevention) and I'd hate them getting spammed on my other server just because I've been busy on my main server.

[/edit[ Gah it's not removed yet it's going to be if I remember correctly.